Making a MUD

[BigPete]

That's how most MUDs work. Usually there's a permission system and if you are a "builder" or "admin" you can modify shit from within the game. When I worked on the inquisition MUD forever ago, you would use an /invisible command and build rooms and shit that weren't connected to anything, and then when you were done, you would connect them to the working game world.

Because inquisition was a heavy RP MUD, me and the other builder would sometimes do shit on the fly like we were running a D&D game, we would build rooms and place objects and monsters in real time as players moved through the dungeon or whatever. We could also inhabit NPCs and monsters to make them respond dynamically to conversation and shit.

Live dev in response to what the players are doing is awesome. Very much like a live dnd campaign.